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photography studio’s production, The Afong Studio was known to occasionally include prints from negatives made by other photographers in albums it produced. This phenomenon extended to other studios as well, and Lai Afong’s photographs would often find their way into albums produced by other studios, or into albums assembled by the purchasers of the prints. Since Lai Afong was a “master photographer with a highly attuned artistic sense,” he only incorporated work from well-regarded foreign photographers – such as Milton Miller,
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Lai Afong was the most successful of his generation of Chinese photographers in appealing to both a Chinese and foreign cosmopolitan clientele. Lai Afong advertised in English-language newspapers – offering a “Larger, and more complete collection of Views than any other Establishment in the Empire of
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Several obstacles make it difficult to reliably identify the artists who photographed nineteenth-century China: the scarcity of material which is scattered around the world is seldom correctly recorded or catalogued, and the few identifiers and indexes that exist (artist, studio, location, etc.) are
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process, but, it is said that by as early as 1859 had learned the art of photography. At some point between 1865 and 1867, Lai Afong worked at the Hong Kong studio of Portuguese photographer José Joaquim Alves de Silveira; by 1870, the earliest known announcement of the Afong Studio was printed as
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Despite Lai Afong's prominence, relatively few works can be securely identified as being from his hand. The scarcity of original photographs and absence of archival records make it challenging to identify Lai Afong’s work. Although photographs printed from Lai Afong’s own negatives dominated his
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As the most successful Chinese photographer of his time period, Lai Afong’s photographs offer a rare opportunity to view China and its people through the eyes of a Chinese artist, before the transformations of the twentieth century would change the country forever. After languishing in near
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The Afong Studio became a destination and training ground for foreign photographers in the region, and photographers such as Emil Rusfeldt and D.K. Griffith began their careers under the tutelage of Lai Afong. In 1875, Griffith claimed that his mentor had “entered the arena of European art,
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Lai Afong seems to have been the only Chinese photographer of his generation to be embraced by his foreign contemporaries. However, his work is distinct among them, as many of Lai Afong’s photographic compositions show the technical and aesthetic influence of traditional
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for showcasing "magnificent views of a rapidly growing Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Xiamen, and important early portraits of the diverse people of late
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China” – and the artist captioned much of his work in both Chinese and English. Afong Studio photographs were sold to both Chinese patrons – both those local to
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has helped to expose Lai Afong to a wider contemporary audience. Lai Afong’s photographs are currently held in the permanent collections of the
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Arte Dal Mediterraneo al Mar Della Cina – Genesi ed incontri di scuole e stili. Scritti in onore di Paola Mortari Vergara Caffarelli
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more than any other photographer working in China in the 19th century, earning his work a place among the giants of 19th century
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often erroneous. When early photographers went out of business or left China, the contents of their studios (including their
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Early Chinese Photographers from 1840 to 1870: Innovation and Adaptation in the Development of Chinese Photography
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associating his name with photography in its best form, and justly stands first of his countrymen in Hong Kong.”
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the first museum exhibition dedicated to Lai Fong. The majority of the photographs exhibited were on loan from
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for “truly the life of Chinese society in the 19th century, telling the story of China in that era” and in
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in France. No other nineteenth-century Chinese photographer offered as extensive and diverse a view of late
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Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection
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Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection
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The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography: Encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China
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obscurity for decades after his death, the presence of his work in archives such as the
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Selected photographs by Lai Afong (Note: See more of Lai's images on Wikimedia Commons)
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created after circa 1880 appear to contain few or no images from other photographers.
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Essentially Chinese – The Chinese Portrait Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography
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eds. P. Fedi-M. Paolillo, Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo, 2015, pp. 587–598
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Through a Foreign Glass: The Art and Science of Photography in late Qing China
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and those visiting from other parts of China – and foreign visitors to China.
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Lai Fong. “Portrait of an Official.” 1870s. Albumen silver print. Source:
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Lai Fong. “Chinese Performers.” 1870s. Albumen silver print. Source:
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Lai Fong. “A Mandarin’s Wife.” 1870s. Albumen silver print. Source:
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History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844–1879
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History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844–1879
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People's Daily (translated by the Loewentheil Collection)
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Images related to Shanghai and other Chinese cities
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Index

Chinese name
family name
Lai
A head-and-shoulders photograph of Lai Afong
Gaoming
Chinese
photographic studio
Qing dynasty

Stephan Loewentheil Photography of China Collection
Gaoming
Guangdong
Hong Kong
Taiping Rebellion
wet-plate collodion
Hong Kong Daily Press
Fujian
Guangdong
Hebei
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Chinese architecture
Summer Palace
Fragrant Hills Pagoda
Beijing
Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
Guangzhou
panoramas
Victoria harbor
Gulangyu island

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